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Sorry, Mrs. Cleaver: dysfunctional families are "in" these days, and here to stay--at least as far as this fall's movie crop is concerned. Close on the heels of the high-powered but uneven A Thousand Acres, and preceding The House of Yes and the much-anticipated The Ice Storm, comes the The Myth of Fingerprints, the debut feature of writer/director Bart Freundlich...
...begin with a consideration of those goodies which arrive in our common rooms, freshbaked and straight out of the oven for the first time. This year's crop of new shows covers a wide expanse of artistic territory, from gritty cop dramas, to gritty district attorney dramas, to gritty private investigator dramas, to some really bad sitcoms...
Among waiters carrying steamed dumplings, onion pizzas and chutneyed tenderloin buzzing through the crowd, many were expressing confidence in this year's crop of seniors...
...world. The producers of Diana & Me have announced that they still plan to release the film at some future date. Boy, is it hard to imagine how. No doubt there are already Diana one-liners circulating among stockbrokers or whoever it is that originates the jokes that instantly crop up in the wake of celebrity deaths and big plane crashes; but it will be a while before the general public, rubbed raw by the funeral, is ready to have a laugh anywhere near the late Princess of Wales...
...latest crop of discoveries is helping put such ideas to rest. French archaeologists, for example, have found exquisite ceramic figurines, bowls and funerary objects at sites that date from at least 8000 b.c. They are as old as any Neolithic sites in Africa and predate prehistoric finds in Egypt by a staggering 3,000 years. This strongly suggests to Hassan Hussein Idris, director of Sudan's National Board for Antiquities and Museums, that ancient Nubia might have been an important source of Egypt's civilization, as well as the other way around...